After hearing Wu Qi's words of warning, a hint of fear flashed through both the black falcon and the azure wasp's eyes.
The devilish falcon then immediately let loose a sharp cry and flapped its wings as it hovered on the spot. Yellow light radiated in all directions, and its body transformed into that of a tall and thin yellow-robed man in the blink of an eye.
The man was holding a white bone spear in one hand and a shimmering golden buckler in the other.
The bone spear had a layer of black flames surging all over it, and the sound of indistinct ghostly howls could be heard emanating from it. As for the buckler, there was a giant devilish image of a creature with three heads and six arms emblazoned on its surface, and its round edge seemed to be very sharp.
Meanwhile, a low buzzing sound rang out from within the azure wasp's mouth, and at the same time, its transparent wings began to tremble and blur.
An incredible scene then ensued in the next instant.
Azure light swirled all over the giant wasp's body, following which countless balls of light surged forth in a frenzy from its wings, covering the entire area in a radius of over 100 feet.
Wu Qi and the yellow-robed man's expression changed slightly in unison as they hurriedly backed away, seemingly quite wary of these balls of light.
The balls of light then flashed and transformed into egg-sized azure wasps that were the spitting image of their creator, except shrunk down significantly, of course.
"Qing Zhen, your Thousand Wasp Avatar Technique seems to have become far more potent. Last time I saw you use this ability, you were still unable to manifest so many devilish wasps," the yellow-robed man said in a slow voice as he appraised these smaller azure wasps.
"Hehe, that's because I reached a higher level of this cultivation art not long ago. Not only can I summon more avatars now, each of them is far more powerful than the individual wasp avatars I could summon in the past," the giant wasp replied in a smug manner.
"That's very good. In that case, we'll have a better chance of hunting down our target. Qing Zhen, you get these avatars to lead the way, and we'll search through this sea of mist; that man is most likely hiding in here," Wu Qi chortled with glee as he slammed his war hammers together before him.
Chapter 1650: Instant Kill
The giant wasp nodded upon hearing this, and despite the fact that it didn't seem to have issued any verbal instructions, the hundreds of wasp avatars around it converged into an azure cloud before disappearing into the sea of mist.
Wu Qi's trio then conversed with one another through voice transmission for a short while before finally following the swarm of wasps into the mist.
After flying for a certain distance, the wasps up ahead transformed into azure flowers that shot forth in all directions.
Meanwhile, the giant wasp itself wasn't moving very quickly, to the extent that it was even lagging behind Wu Qi and the yellow-robed man.
However, these two devilish beasts seemed to have already grown accustomed to this, and they weren't fazed at all.
This Thousand Wasp Avatar Technique was a very powerful and versatile technique, but after unleashing it, the giant wasp's cultivation base would be reduced by half, so it was naturally proceeding with extra caution.
The devilish wasps searched through the entire nearby area before slowly continuing onward.
The entire sea of mist only extended for under 100 kilometers, so it really wasn't very large. After just 15 minutes, the three devilish beasts had almost reached the halfway mark, yet they still didn't discover their target.
As time passed, Wu Qi's expression gradually darkened, as did the expressions on the faces of the other two devilish beasts.
After a while longer, just as the swarm of wasps was flying toward a patch of relatively denser mist, a streak of golden light suddenly flashed within the mist from several hundred feet away, slicing one of the nearby devilish wasps in half in a flash!
Immediately thereafter, a golden shadow emerged from that patch of mist, then fled in another direction at an astonishing speed.
The giant azure wasp was elated to see this, and it immediately yelled to its avatars, "There he is! Get him!"
A loud buzzing sound rang out from the nearby area as all of the wasp avatars transformed into countless azure flowers that hurtled through the air.
Meanwhile, Wu Qi and the devilish falcon exchanged a rather peculiar glance with one another, but they also quickly flew through the air.
A gust of black devilish winds erupted into the heavens amid a resounding boom, and it also set off in pursuit of the golden shadow in the distance.
As for the giant wasp, it was still flying on ahead at its normal speed.
Thus, both the golden shadow and the gust of black winds disappeared mere moments later.
The giant wasp blinked its compound eyes upon seeing this, and it suddenly stopped on the spot, looking as if it no longer wanted to continue onward.
Right at this moment, a streak of golden light suddenly erupted from the grey mist above it before piercing through the air rapidly toward its head.
The golden light was extremely bright, and even before it reached the giant wasp, a burst of astonishing spiritual pressure came crashing down upon it.
The azure wasp was the weakest among the trio in terms of cultivation base, and this disadvantage had been significantly exacerbated after it had unleashed its Thousand Wasp Avatar Technique. Thus, a hint of fear flashed through its eyes at the sight of the oncoming streak of golden light.
However, strangely enough, the devilish wasp remained completely still, displaying no intention to take evasive measures.
Just as the golden light was about to puncture the azure wasp's head, spatial fluctuations suddenly erupted, and a white bone spear abruptly appeared before it.
A layer of black flames surfaced over the entire length of the bone spear, and it repelled the streak of golden light amid a crisp clang.
The golden light circled around and revealed itself to be a shimmering golden spear.
Immediately thereafter, a ball of yellow light appeared before the azure wasp, within which a humanoid figure could be seen.
It was none other than the yellow-robed man who'd clearly already gone on ahead.
He raised a hand and waved it through the air, drawing the bone spear into his grasp in a flash. Meanwhile, a golden buckler appeared in his other hand, and he held it before his body.
At this moment he was staring at the cloud of grey mist where the golden light had shot forth from with a peculiar look on his face.
All of a sudden, black light flashed in the air above the cloud of grey mist, and two round-table-like black shadows abruptly appeared before crashing down with ferocious might.
Gale-force winds swept through the air as a loud boom rang out.
The black shadows flashed past, and the space in its wake twisted and warped as if it were about to be torn open.
A burst of invisible force had also instantly dispersed the mist down below, revealing a humanoid figure that was emanating faint golden light.
The humanoid figure seemed to be panicked by the fact that its location had been exposed, and it hurried launched a pair of golden fist projections through the air toward the black shadow up above, then immediately fled the scene as a streak of golden light.
"Where do you think you're going?" A deafening roar suddenly erupted, following which the two black shadows abruptly crashed down from above. They pulverized the oncoming golden fist projections, then swayed and revealed themselves to be a pair of massive black war hammers.
The two war hammers rotated in the air, and two enormous bursts of suction force appeared out of thin air, encompassing an area in a radius of over 200 feet down below.
Thus, the golden humanoid figure only managed to fly through the air for just over 100 feet before it became extremely slow and sluggish.
At this moment, the yellow-robed man abruptly swept an arm through the air, and
the bone spear in his hand shot forth as a streak of black light, hurtling through the air like lightning.
At the same time, the giant wasp's abdomen suddenly twitched, and an azure thread shot forth from its tail-end.
The streak of black light and the azure thread reached the golden humanoid figure in a flash, and the azure thread appeared to be quite mundane, but it outsped the bone spear before reaching its target first.
The thread then disappeared into the golden humanoid figure's body in a flash, and the latter shuddered as the golden light emanating from it dimmed, following which a foul odor began to waft through the air.
In the next instant, the streak of black light also punctured through the golden humanoid figure's dantian in a flash.
A layer of black flames instantly erupted over the golden humanoid figure's body, completely inundating it in the blink of an eye.
At this moment, one of the giant black war hammers also crashed down from above and struck the black flames amid an earth-shattering boom.
The Golden humanoid figure was instantly pulverized into nothingness while the black flames were also snuffed out by the immense force of the impact.
Spatial fluctuations erupted in the air several hundred feet overhead, and Wu Qi emerged out of thin air with a sinister smile on his face as he cast his gaze downward.
The yellow-robed man and the azure wasp also wore smiles on their faces upon seeing this.
This was a plan they'd established before venturing into the sea of mist; they were going to expose the enemy using the swarm of wasp avatars, then use the giant wasp itself as bait to lure out their target. As expected, the plan worked splendidly, and they'd managed to slay this enemy with minimal effort.
However, just as the three of them were heaving a sigh of relief, an azure longsword suddenly shot forth out of thin air from several tens of feet behind the azure wasp without any warning.
As a Spatial Tempering Stage high-grade devilish beast, the azure wasp almost immediately sensed what was happening behind it, and its heart jolted with shock as a poisonous stinger abruptly emerged out of its conical tail-end.
The stinger was around a foot in length, and it tremored as layers of stinger projections whistled through the air to shield its body within.
However, the azure longsword merely flashed past without any difficulty, and the giant wasp shuddered as it was sliced cleanly in half.
The two halves of its body plummeted from the sky, and as of the poisonous stinger it had just summoned, that had also been sliced in half without being able to offer any resistance.
A ball of green flames suddenly flew out of one half of the giant wasp's body, and a miniature azure wasp could be seen within it. As it flew desperately toward the yellow-robed man, who was the closest ally to it, it yelled in a panicked manner, "Save me, Fellow Daoist Ying Tang!"
At this point, both the yellow-robed man with the name of Ying Tang had naturally also discovered what had happened behind him, and his expression changed drastically as he immediately swept a sleeve through the air.
A burst of black Qi swept forth from within, attempting to envelop the soul of the giant wasp.
However, a cold harrumph suddenly rang out from a certain location, and upon hearing this harrumph, the yellow-robed man was struck by a sense of intense agony, as if a sharp spike had been driven into his head. He let loose an involuntary howl of agony, and his body plummeted like a bird with broken wings.
All of a sudden, a loud thunderclap rang out, following which an azure and white arcs of lightning appeared, and a hand that was as pristine as white jade emerged.
The hand flicked its five fingers through the air, and a burst of five-colored flames instantly swept up the yellow-robed man, causing him to decelerate significantly in his descent.
During this split-second delay, the five fingers on the hand spread open and took on a shimmering golden hue as golden lightning erupted forth, surging directly toward the yellow-robed man's chest.
The yellow-robed man immediately turned deathly pale upon seeing this.
Even though his spiritual sense was still throbbing with pain, this was an extremely dire situation, so he repressed the agony and forcibly drew upon a wisp of spiritual sense.
The golden buckler in his hand immediately flashed before swelling drastically to several times its original size, and a dozen or so strange runes of different sizes appeared on its surface.
Having had its powers activated, the buckler completely shielded the yellow-robed man's body behind it.
Meanwhile, the splitting headache that the yellow-robed man had been afflicted by was quickly receding, so if he could withstand this attack and save himself, he'd be able to retaliate with a vengeance.
Just as these thoughts were racing through his mind, golden light flashed, and the golden palm thrust itself toward the buckler without displaying any intention of taking evasive measures.
An earsplitting boom erupted as golden flashed, and the golden palm screeched through the buckler, then punctured the yellow-robed man's chest in a flash before pulling its devilish core out of its body.
Silver light then flashed along the entire arm, and a layer of silver flames swept forth to instantly envelop the yellow-robed man's body.
The devilish falcon's soul only had a chance to let loose a wail of anguish before it was incinerated into nothingness.
At this moment, the azure and white arc of lightning faded, and a winged young man appeared in an expressionless manner before slowly withdrawing his arm.
In the hand attached to that arm was a shimmering black devilish core.
This young man was naturally none other than Han Li, and the soul of azure wasp was petrified upon witnessing this harrowing development. As such, green light flashed from its body, and it immediately tried to escape in another direction.
However, it was already too late.
A derisive sneer appeared on Han Li's face as he swept the sleeve of his other arm through the air.
A burst of grey light immediately surged forth from within to capture the soul of the azure wasp.
The miniature azure wasp let loose a muffled groan before it was crushed into specks of green light by the Divine Essencefused Light, then disappeared into nothingness as well.
Chapter 1651: Obtaining the Mirror
In the instant that the soul of the azure wasp was destroyed, the swarm of devilish wasp avatars all self-detonated several thousand feet away.
Thus, the giant azure wasp and the devilish falcon were slain in virtually the blink of an eye, and Han Li paid no heed to the devilish falcon's plummeting body as he cast a frosty gaze toward the final high-grade devilish beast.
Wu Qi had naturally witnessed everything that had just taken place, and he was struck by a sense of astonishment and foreboding.
The giant wasp and the devilish falcon possessed inferior cultivation bases compared to his, but there definitely wasn't a significant disparity. However, this man had slain them with ease in the blink of an eye, and not even their souls had managed to escape; how could he not be struck by fear in the face of such a fearsome foe?
It was indeed true that he'd only managed to kill the two devilish beasts so easily as he'd caught them off guard with a sneak attack, but under the same circumstances, Wu Qi knew that he definitely wouldn't have been able to slay those two companions of his so easily.
At the same time, he was feeling rather perplexed.
Just what was that golden shadow that lured them out, only to be killed with a single hammer strike?
They'd clearly sensed powerful spiritual pressure emanating from it. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been fooled so easily.
In any case, if he were to engage this man in battle, death would most likely be the fate that awaited him, so it was a much better idea to wait for reinforcements to get here before killing this man.
If worst came to worst, they'd just have to break the agreement that had been made with the outside world and s
et up an ambush at the entrance to the mountain ranges in order to kill their target.
The top-grade beings of the outside world surely wouldn't venture into the mountain ranges and spark a battle over just a single Spatial Tempering Stage being.
Thus, after rapidly processing this series of thoughts, Wu Qi immediately devised a strategy.
At the same time Han Li cast his gaze toward him, he made a grabbing motion with both hands, and the two metal war hammers abruptly shrank down to their original size before returning to his grasp.
He then opened his mouth to produce that triangular copper mirror before quickly pointing a finger at it.
A ball of light erupted from the surface of the mirror amid a low buzzing sound, and the ball of light instantly descended from above.
A peculiar scene then unfolded.
As the ball of light descended, Wu Qi's burly figure suddenly disappeared.
Immediately thereafter, the copper mirror tremored slightly, and it also disappeared into thin air, leaving an afterimage in its wake.
Han Li faltered slightly upon seeing this, seemingly taken aback by this development.
However, his expression then immediately darkened, and blue light quickly flashed through his eyes. It was as if a vortex had appeared in his pupils, and if there were any onlookers present, they'd be struck by the feeling that those eyes were trying to suck the souls out of their bodies.
All of a sudden, Han Li seemed to have caught sight of something, and he abruptly made a hand seal before pointing two fingers toward his glabella.
A ball of black Qi appeared, then manifested an inky-black eyeball.
It was none other than his Law Destruction Eye.
As soon as the demonic eye appeared, inky-black light swirled within it, and there seemed to be runes surging incessantly within the pupil.
A beam of black light that was around as thick as a human finger shot forth from within the Law Destruction Eye, then also disappeared into thin air.
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